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    Posted April 1, 2008 by
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    The Economic Slavery

     

    When we look around, we can find out that many people are borrowing to the limit for ‘their' house, ‘their' auto car, and luxurious equipment such as expensive hi-fi apparatus and so on.

    This is even so stimulated by banks and money-loan offices.

    Yet the people can live with that, but nothing may be going wrong. They can generate their payments of interest for the loaned money and even some payments by installments.

    But it is a stressful life and it is done, because everyone, with some exceptions of course, does this. So it is accepted as a way of thinking and of life.

    This is practically so in every modern society, where it seems that people live in some luxurious way, without the healthy foundation, known from earlier years, when our parents had to work their whole life to earn some property and proudly refuse to borrow some money.

     

    This was so-called not-done.

     

    Nowadays it is ‘normal' to live upon the accounts of the bank.

    It seems to me that for example the government in Holland, by putting on a great percentage of the income into taxes-paying, this Dutch government is now borrowing from all the Dutch citizens. This is a malicious sign.

    So it is a vicious circle where the poor inhabitant is almost crashed by the bank and the tax-collector's office of the government.

    This means that there is so to say a near exploding balloon-economy, accepted and promoted as a ‘well doing' one.

    I am afraid that the whole concept only can run starting from the proposition, that the citizens by their own behavior and by their massive numbers are the modern slaves of the materialism or have to worship the Mammon(the biblical idol), and which has stolen their own dignity.

    And I am afraid that the government is squeezing dry a desiccated lemon in spite of many very serious warnings, screaming out of the Dutch Society.

    Almost nobody can escape from this financial terror.

    This economy has to put back to the old principles that have his foundation: first earn the money and then buy something and not the other way round.

    Already too many people are becoming unhappy and unhealthy by money-stress.

     

    I think that otherwise this form of economy and thus our societies collapse as exploding too much blazed-up balloons.

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